Jeff Burt

Intel Corp. on Tuesday will unveil an upgraded Gallatin chip, a Xeon MP for systems with four or more chips that will double the amount of Level 3 cache and boost the speed. The announcement will come at an event in New York with financial services company Thomson Financial, which uses systems running both Xeon […]

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. is looking to expand its target market with the acquisition of start-up OctigaBay Corp. Cray announced on Wednesday a deal to buy the Vancouver-based company for about $115 million. The acquisition is another step in Crays push to branch out in the commercial world of supercomputers. In October 2003, the Seattle […]

IBM is ramping up the processor speed and memory capacity of its high-end eServer p690 systems by offering 1.9GHz Power4+ processors in the eight- to 32-way servers. The upgrade comes a week after the Armonk, N.Y., company announced that a 32-way p690 set benchmark records for transaction processing, and that a German company, Juelich Research […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. executives on Tuesday will announce that they are going to use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron processor in some of their ProLiant servers, according to a source close to both companies. HP has scheduled a press conference for Tuesday morning in Houston to discuss the expansion of its industry-standard server line, which […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the first of its systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Opteron chip later this quarter as it works to expand its ProLiant server line. The Palo Alto, Calif., company also has entered into a multi-year development and marketing agreement with AMD that will lead to future innovations based on AMDs […]

It was about 10 years ago when executives at Sabre Holdings Corp. decided they needed to start thinking about moving their online travel business off their existing proprietary mainframes and onto a new platform. Internet-based travel booking was gaining rapid acceptance among a growing group of computer-literate consumers and among travel agents and airlines, and […]

Until recently, the most computationally intensive research in the life sciences field was done by major institutions that had the money to buy expensive, high-end systems. However, smaller companies in the space now are able to harness the computational power that had been primarily the domain of their larger brethren. That is due to the […]

Dell Inc. is rolling out two single-processor servers designed to give small-business and corporate workgroup customers advanced features—such as more powerful chips and remote management capabilities—that until now could be found only in more expensive two-processor boxes. Such customers have been trying to cobble together an IT infrastructure through peer-to-peer environments using desktops, or they […]

Intel Corp.s decision to compete head-to-head with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by bringing 64-bit capabilities to its Xeon processors should result in a greater number of hardware and software options for enterprises looking for a gradual transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. Craig Barrett, CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif., company, last week at the […]

IBM is signing up a second customer for its Blue Gene/L supercomputer system, bringing the technology to a Dutch astronomy organization that is building a new powerful radio telescope. The agreement with ASTRON—or Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy—not only gives IBM a follow-up to its deal with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif., but […]

Dell Inc. is bringing InfiniBand capabilities to its high-performance computing cluster configurations via technology from Topspin Communications Inc. The addition of InfiniBand switches is a continuation of Dells drive to offer industry-standard technology to its customers, said Victor Mashayekhi, development manager for Dells HPC initiatives. “[InfiniBand] gives us that opportunity to give customers a standardized […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., which co-developed the 64-Itanium platform with Intel Corp., joined other OEMs in supporting the chip makers move to add 64-bit extensions to its 32-bit Xeon processor line. Intel CEO Craig Barrett, in his keynote speech Tuesday at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, announced that the company will begin offering the extensions […]